News & Views The latest updates from SSEN Transmission

• SSEN Transmission awarded £7.1 million funding from Ofgem to advance two pioneering innovation projects

  20 July 2023

  • Innovation
  • Press Release
  • Net Zero

  Two SSEN Transmission electricity projects which focus on innovation in the transmission sector have been awarded funding to progress into the first ‘Beta’ phase of Ofgem’s Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF).

  

• SSEN Transmission supports STEM challenges across Orkney and Shetland

  18 July 2023

  • Community
  • Net Zero

  Young people from schools across Orkney and Shetland participated in recent STEM Celebration Events organised by SCDI’s Young Engineers and Science Club (YESC).

  

• Ofgem approves Orkney transmission link

  14 July 2023

  • Connections
  • Major Projects
  • Net Zero

  SSEN Transmission welcomes today’s publication by Ofgem in which the energy regulator has given its final approval of need for long awaited and much needed plans to provide a subsea electricity transmission link to Orkney.

  

• Work underway to explore alternative potential site for new Fiddes substation

  14 July 2023

  • Press Release
  • Major Projects
  • Net Zero

  SSEN Transmission can confirm that its teams are now actively exploring alternative potential sites for its proposed new substation around the Fiddes area of the Mearns in Aberdeenshire.

  

• Members of the public in Forfar area invited to share their views on essential East Coast electricity transmission infrastructure plans

  11 July 2023

  • Community
  • Press Release
  • Consultation
  • Major Projects
  • Net Zero

  • SSEN Transmission to host consultation event in Forfar on Kintore-Fiddes-Tealing 400kV project • Event to take place on Thursday 13 July at Forfar Reid Hall, 1-7pm

  

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